Temporal adverbial subclause
| Keď bolo teplo, išli sme sa kúpať. Kedy sme sa išli kúpať? Keď bolo teplo. | = | When it was warm, we went swimming. When did we go swimming? When it was warm. |
| Keď napadol sneh, deti sa išli sánkovať. Kedy sa deti išli sánkovať? Keď napadol sneh. | = | When the snow fell, the children went sledging. When did the children go sledging? When the snow fell. |
| Keď som mal desať rokov, otec mi kúpil nový bicykel. Kedy mi otec kúpil nový bicykel? Keď som mal desať rokov. | = | When I was ten, my father bought me a new bike. When did my father buy me a new bike? When I was ten. |
We have formed a complex sentence with an adverbial clause of time. We ask using the questions: kedy? ako často? ako dlho? In this type of sentence we most often use the conjunction keď.
Word order
Usual word order:
| conjunction keď | predicate | subject | other constituents of the sentence | |
| Keď | mal | Jano | čas, | často sa lyžoval. |
Of course, we can also change the order of clauses in a complex sentence:
Otec mi kúpil nový bicykel, keď som mal desať rokov.
